Every New Year’s Eve, families all over the Netherlands grab their frying pots, oil, and flour. Ready to make, a lot of oliebollen – the ‘Dutch donut’, if you will. Best eaten with (lots) of powdered sugar, they’re an integral…
If you want to have your taste of some pretty unique Dutch foods, I’d recommend you visit a fair or market. You’ll get your chance to eat oliebollen (only eaten with New Year’s or on a fair), kibbeling (fried fish)…
Trends, and especially those on social media, can pass me by without me having noticed them at all. I have one of our readers to thank for discovering one of the big drink trends on Tiktok and Instagram in spring…
Some recipes are super flexible. Add a little more butter or flour to these chocolate cookies, and they’ll still look and taste great. And a little more or less butter to your brownie and it will slightly change in texture,…
In the past decade or so I have lived abroad in several countries. One of the aspects of living abroad is sharing (or telling about) the food from where you’re from. The Dutch stroopwafels (syrup waffles) so far have been…
If you’ve never been to Chicago, chances are small you have come across Chicago-style deep dish pizza. It’s a pretty regional phenomenon and personally I haven’t seen it outside of the city, whereas in Chicago every tourist seems to ‘need’…
We humans like crispy foods. Whether it’s munching on a potato chip, cracking through some crispy pork belly or enjoying a crispy bread crust, somehow we crave for it. There’s a reason chefs (and contestants on cooking shows) always talk…
What’s the similarity between vanilla ice cream and whisky? Any clue? It’s the vanilla. Whisky often contains vanilla flavours, just like ice cream does. But no vanilla bean has been added to whisky of course. How vanilla is formed and created…
The other day, blueberries were on sale at the supermarket. Blueberries tend to be expensive here so I decided to grab my chance and buy some, not having a clue on what to use them for just yet. Somehow though,…
When making a dessert (hot cross waffles!) the other I needed the zest of about 1/5 of an orange and of a lemon. I don’t like using half products though. So I wanted to use all the zest in some…
One of the things I like best about enjoying food science, is the fact that once you’re into it, you see food science all around. I can’t bake a bread without thinking about the Maillard reaction or the fermentation process.…
On my blog I write about food science a lot, discussing chemistry, physics and microbiology and applying all of that to the food I make in our kitchen. Just today I realized I haven’t really used the term molecular gastronomy…